The Education (School Inspection) Regulations 1997

Intervals for inspection

12.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where the governing body of a voluntary or grant-maintained school are required by section 23 of the 1996 Act to secure that the denominational education given to any pupils or the content of the school’s collective worship (or both) are inspected they shall—

(a) in the case of a secondary school which was inspected on or after 1st September 1993 but before 1st August 1997, secure that subsequent inspections take place within six school years from the end of the school year in which the last inspection took place;

(b) in any other case, secure that the inspection takes place on or after 1st September 1994 but before 1st August 1998 and thereafter that subsequent inspections take place within six school years from the end of the school year in which the last inspection took place.

(2) In the case of—

(a) the governing body of a secondary school which first has a duty to secure an inspection under section 23 of the 1996 Act on or after 1st August 1997, and

(b) the governing body of any other school which first has a duty to secure an inspection under that section on or after 1st August 1998,

the governing body shall secure that the inspection takes place within a period of six years from the end of the school year in which that duty first arises and, thereafter, that subsequent inspections take place within six school years from the end of the school year in which the last inspection took place.